FPGA Design Engineer

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🌾 Iowa – Remote

🌾 Iowa – Remote

💵 $80 - $90 / hour

⏰ Full Time

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Quest Defense

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201 - 500 employees

🚀 Aerospace

Aerospace • Defense

Quest Defense is a company specializing in providing advanced engineering solutions for the defense sector, particularly in the domains of air, land, sea, and space. They deliver mission-critical and safety-focused solutions, integrating cutting-edge technologies such as AI, IoT, and digital threads throughout the product lifecycle to enhance efficiency, performance, and safety. Their expertise encompasses a wide range of services including mechanical engineering, engineering process optimization, and sustainment and product support. Quest Defense partners with leading defense organizations to meet the most challenging industry standards and demands, working on innovative technologies to optimize aerospace, naval, land, and space systems. The company is committed to diversity, inclusion, and maintaining high ethical standards in its operations.

📋 Description

• Develop and support FPGA designs using VHDL for safety-critical aerospace applications. • Implement and modify RTL designs supporting communication protocols, memory interfaces, data management, processor interfaces, and related digital functions. • Perform FPGA design activities including simulation, synthesis, place and route support, timing closure, pin-out definition, and design constraint development. • Troubleshoot RTL design issues using simulation environments, debug tools, and structured root cause analysis. • Support I/O timing analysis and resolve timing-related design challenges. • Develop and maintain DO-254 related documentation, including requirements, design descriptions, design specifications, traceability documentation, and supporting verification artifacts. • Collaborate with systems, hardware, verification, and project engineering teams to ensure design intent, requirements, and implementation remain aligned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. • 5+ years of relevant FPGA design experience in aerospace, defense, avionics, or another safety-critical engineering environment. • Strong hands-on experience developing FPGA designs using VHDL. • Experience with RTL design, simulation, synthesis, implementation, place and route, and timing closure. • Ability to implement and support FPGA functions related to communication protocols, memory interfaces, data management, processor interfaces, or similar digital design applications. • Experience developing and applying FPGA design constraints, pin-out assignments, routing considerations, and I/O timing analysis. • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot RTL design flaws using simulation environments and structured debug/root cause analysis methods. • Working knowledge of digital systems, FPGA design methodologies, testing practices, and hardware/software or system-level integration. • Prior experience working within a DO-254 development environment. • Experience developing or supporting DO-254 documentation, including requirements, design descriptions, design specifications, and traceability documentation. • Familiarity with requirements-based design practices in safety-critical or regulated development environments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay, comprehensive medical/dental/life and disability coverage, 401(k) with employer match, professional development support, and a flexible, friendly workplace.